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Title: Will couche grass compost?
Post by: silly billy on April 27, 2008, 17:40:48

I have been digging up masses of clumps of couche grass, knocking the soil off and placing them in my pallet compost bins.............will they compost down if I cover them with black polythene?

Title: Re: Will couche grass compost?
Post by: tonybloke on April 27, 2008, 17:48:49

probably not! either totally dry them out, or drown until mushy. then compost them.

Title: Re: Will couche grass compost?
Post by: saddad on April 27, 2008, 17:51:32

If you bag them up in old plastic compost sacks and exclude the light they make great compost but can take up to two years...
 ;D

Title: Re: Will couche grass compost?
Post by: silly billy on April 27, 2008, 18:13:31

Thanks for the replies.........how about if I sprayed it with glyphosphate then covered with polythene?

Title: Re: Will couche grass compost?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on April 27, 2008, 19:25:26

I've been composting couch for years and never had any problems. I've never known it survive overwinter in a compost bin or under black plastic, as long as it hasn't got roots running through to anywhere there's light.